What strikes me about this column is the contrast between Weiss's willingness to explore how the Democratic left's attitudes about Jews have changed while clinging to boiler-plate condemnations of those on the right. The notion that the right is somehow dominated by "white supremacists' is a lazy and unsupportable claim. American Christ…
What strikes me about this column is the contrast between Weiss's willingness to explore how the Democratic left's attitudes about Jews have changed while clinging to boiler-plate condemnations of those on the right. The notion that the right is somehow dominated by "white supremacists' is a lazy and unsupportable claim. American Christians, who represent a significant cohort within the Republican party, are among the most passionate supporters of the Jewish state. As was Trump. It's a perversion to conflate the Charlottesville protestors with Republicans in general or, specifically, Republicans' attitudes toward Jews. Show me the data that supports the argument that Republicans today are anti-semitic in any meaningful percentage. In fact, my guess is the data will show that there has been a sea change in the attitudes of conservatives over the past 50 years toward the Jewish state and Jews, which, as Weiss points are, are intertwined.
There are plenty of right wing racists and antisemites out there - they just don't control the party like the left wing racists do of the Dems. I agree, it's time for American Jews to make the Ds pay.
It is a painful moment for anyone brought up Jewish/Liberal in New York, or Pittsburgh, or elsewhere, when the realization finally strikes that the Democratic Party of today is not remotely related to the party of the same name in the '50s, '60s, or even '70s. Our parents revered FDR (ignoring his own anti-Semitism), we were inspired by JFK, RFK, even LBJ's Great Society ideas before Vietnam ruined everything. We thought Joe McCarthy was the Devil incarnate, and Barry Goldwater would incinerate humanity. However flawed and blinkered our upbringing, it shaped our beliefs.
But our beliefs were disastrously wrong even then, and are a grotesque perversion of reality today. Today's "Progressives," are the intolerant, anti-democratic, repressive, violent, and virulently anti-Semitic ones, and every Democrat who acquiesces to their takeover of the party is as guilty as they are. Republicans today are the ones standing up not just for Israel but for the glorious ideals enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and the beautiful dream given voice by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democrats' lies about Charlottesville, and Donald Trump's response to it, are as despicable a calumny as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Southerners with no hint of racism in their souls still respect the memory of their Civil War dead and resent the wanton obliteration of their past by today's woke vandals. The Charlottesville demonstration was about that, and the few white supremacist idiots who crashed the party, even the criminal who ran down the counter-demostrators, would have been less than a footnote without Democratic and media hysteria. Donald Trump's entire statement began with condemnation of white supremacists, and he specifically excluded them from his observation that there were "good people on both sides."
Wake up, American Jews! The Democratic Party is the enemy. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar represent the Democratic Party as surely as Julius Streicher and Josef Goebbels spoke for the NSDAP in 1930. If you want advice about whom to support, look to Jared Kushner, or Stephen Miller, or David Horowitz. American democracy, and Jews' safe place within it, can still be saved, but people had better wake up soon!
It's always fascinating to me that the left will always shriek that whatever republican is in the oval office will start WW3.
Barry Goldwater is going to incinerate the world three and a half minutes after he takes the oath of office. What did we get instead? "Hey Hey Hey LBJ. How many kids did you kill today"?
Ronald Reagan is a crazy cowboy movie actor that is going to incinerate the world three and a half minutes after he take the oath of office. What did we get instead? "Mr. Gorbachov tear down this wall", followed by the tearing down of that wall and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Donald Trump kills Soleimini (no points off for spelling please) and the left screams that we are now on the brink of WW3. What did we get instead? The historic Abraham Accords and the American Embassy in Jerusalem.
What strikes me about this column is the contrast between Weiss's willingness to explore how the Democratic left's attitudes about Jews have changed while clinging to boiler-plate condemnations of those on the right. The notion that the right is somehow dominated by "white supremacists' is a lazy and unsupportable claim. American Christians, who represent a significant cohort within the Republican party, are among the most passionate supporters of the Jewish state. As was Trump. It's a perversion to conflate the Charlottesville protestors with Republicans in general or, specifically, Republicans' attitudes toward Jews. Show me the data that supports the argument that Republicans today are anti-semitic in any meaningful percentage. In fact, my guess is the data will show that there has been a sea change in the attitudes of conservatives over the past 50 years toward the Jewish state and Jews, which, as Weiss points are, are intertwined.
There are plenty of right wing racists and antisemites out there - they just don't control the party like the left wing racists do of the Dems. I agree, it's time for American Jews to make the Ds pay.
It is a painful moment for anyone brought up Jewish/Liberal in New York, or Pittsburgh, or elsewhere, when the realization finally strikes that the Democratic Party of today is not remotely related to the party of the same name in the '50s, '60s, or even '70s. Our parents revered FDR (ignoring his own anti-Semitism), we were inspired by JFK, RFK, even LBJ's Great Society ideas before Vietnam ruined everything. We thought Joe McCarthy was the Devil incarnate, and Barry Goldwater would incinerate humanity. However flawed and blinkered our upbringing, it shaped our beliefs.
But our beliefs were disastrously wrong even then, and are a grotesque perversion of reality today. Today's "Progressives," are the intolerant, anti-democratic, repressive, violent, and virulently anti-Semitic ones, and every Democrat who acquiesces to their takeover of the party is as guilty as they are. Republicans today are the ones standing up not just for Israel but for the glorious ideals enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and the beautiful dream given voice by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democrats' lies about Charlottesville, and Donald Trump's response to it, are as despicable a calumny as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Southerners with no hint of racism in their souls still respect the memory of their Civil War dead and resent the wanton obliteration of their past by today's woke vandals. The Charlottesville demonstration was about that, and the few white supremacist idiots who crashed the party, even the criminal who ran down the counter-demostrators, would have been less than a footnote without Democratic and media hysteria. Donald Trump's entire statement began with condemnation of white supremacists, and he specifically excluded them from his observation that there were "good people on both sides."
Wake up, American Jews! The Democratic Party is the enemy. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar represent the Democratic Party as surely as Julius Streicher and Josef Goebbels spoke for the NSDAP in 1930. If you want advice about whom to support, look to Jared Kushner, or Stephen Miller, or David Horowitz. American democracy, and Jews' safe place within it, can still be saved, but people had better wake up soon!
It's always fascinating to me that the left will always shriek that whatever republican is in the oval office will start WW3.
Barry Goldwater is going to incinerate the world three and a half minutes after he takes the oath of office. What did we get instead? "Hey Hey Hey LBJ. How many kids did you kill today"?
Ronald Reagan is a crazy cowboy movie actor that is going to incinerate the world three and a half minutes after he take the oath of office. What did we get instead? "Mr. Gorbachov tear down this wall", followed by the tearing down of that wall and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Donald Trump kills Soleimini (no points off for spelling please) and the left screams that we are now on the brink of WW3. What did we get instead? The historic Abraham Accords and the American Embassy in Jerusalem.